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Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-02-10
Land Sales.

AtAhA '"Aht1
IL. II. Grafford To Madison
Goodpasture, so acres, e miles
southwest of vandalia.......$2,oO 900 90
Madison Goodpasture to Jno: Il.
Goodpasture, SO acres, e miles
northwest of Vandalia ....... 1900 90
James c. Bassford to W. IL.
Britt, lots 6 and 7, block s,
Ladies addition to Mexico. 100 90
VIM. G. Renfro to Wm.P. Burke
so acres,12 miles northwest of
Mexico. 1900 90
| Pierce Sanford to q. W. Waters
) acres, 5 miles southeast of
.......... 4S W
James X. Pool to Joseph James
lot l4lx5i4 feet, Thompson
Station. 4uu w
r. l.. Carter to Jno. B, Greg
DRY, part lot 4, Mrs. Sparks
addition to Mexico.......... 800 90
James II. Shoots to Thomas B.
Wright, lots Is and l6, block
Benton Observation-Disclosures. 500 OC
Geo. Rice to Mary IL. Rice, 26
acres, 20 miles east of Mexico 500 OC
Douglas Murray and Gale Berry
to w. I. Lott, l60 acres,
miles northeast of MeXico.... 1000 0C
Amos Ladd, decided by admins
traitor, to &. L. Harrison and
W. IL. c. DIESEL, lot S,block J,
Ladd's add TO MeXlco...-.... IS 0C
Lewis r. Crum, by heirs, to G.
A. L.. Crum, l20 acres, 8 miles
south of Observation-Disclosures. 1850 OF
Joseph r. Grass to Geo. II.
LapsIey, 800 acres, 6 miles
north Of Mexico, property and 1000 OF
ii. f. Woodward to Laura b.
Nelson, lot in east Mexico.... 1900 o.
j. T. Nelson to H.F Woodward,
lot in east Mexico, home place, 5000 o.
Geo. W. Woolwine to IF. Poor,
lots 8 and 6, block 3, Laddonia 400 o.
S. c. Adams to j. b. Schroll,
lots 5, block -, Farber...... SO o.
J. B. Schroll to Pen Burnett, 30
feet north end lot Tin block 6,
so U
John Gamble to James T. Miller.
40 acres,6 miles west of Mexico $50 O
Thos. j. Force to VIM. Law
nee, lots l and2, block Sand
lot adjoining Rush Hill...... 600 0
j. A. Curry to VIM. l.. Lawrance
40 53-l00 acres, and lot IA
SQUARE rods, neal Rush Hill. LOO O
James A. Curry to VIM L. Law
rance, SKIS rds. of land near
Rush 600 0
ID. Durkee to VIM. II. Wakefield
100 acres, e miles north of
4 900 q
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-02-10
To THE

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Sl.00 per 500 for three years.
Sl.50 per 500 for five years.
Don't pay 70 to 80 per cent. higher
than above rates and give your note
for the premium, which soon falls into
hands of attorneys and banks fol
collection. kILGoRE & HOWELL.
Insurance Agents, Mexico, Mo.
Over Savings Bank. 33tf
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-02-10
MONEY! MONEY!
$500, $500, $1,000, $4,000
5000.

Good farm loans can now be placed
for three or five years time at fair
rates in Audrain, Boone, Galloway,
Randolph, Monroe, Rails and Pike
counties. Apply to
j. P. CLARK, Mexico, Mo-,
Agent for eastern capital and old
est real estate and loan agent in Gen.
trail Missouri. 45-tf
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-02-10

In the case of the State VS. Robert
Rails, the jury returned O verdict
yesterday of not guilty.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-02-10

Fresh sausage at R. G. Paul's.
1886.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-02-10

Love lies a-sleeping: maiden, softly sing.
Lest he should waken; pluck the falling rose
A-brushilg 'gainst his check, her glow
ing heart
One'd 10 the SUMS hot kisses-foOlish thing
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-07-15

EDlNBURG, July S.-There is a good
deal of indignation manifested over
the failure of Blaine's admission to
the Council Chamber during the pre-
sentation of the freedom of the city to
Carnegie, now that it is known. 1t
appears that the occurrence was
brought about by official tact. Blaine
and Senator Hale arrived half hour
late. All approaches to the Council
Chamber were crowded. The visitors
had hard time in reaching the
Chamber door. When they got there
they found themselves without tickets.
The janitor did not know them, and
would not pass them in. Carnegie
was at that time delivering his ad.
dress. Blaine sent message to the
Provost, who waited till Carnegie
finished his address before sending or
ders for the admission of Blaine. By
this time Blaine and Hale had become
disgusted and returned. Carnegie
when he heard what had happened
became very angry and would scarce
ly listen to the Provost's excuses.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-07-15

WHY THEY WANT TO VOTE.-If
am asked what women want the bal
lot for, answer, What do men want
it for2 Why do the British workmen
at this moment so urgently demand
it? Look into the British laws regu-
lating labor, and you will see why.
They want the ballot because the laws
affecting labor and capital are made
by the capitalist class alone, and are
therefore unjust. do not forget the
progressive legislation Of New York in
regard to the rights of women. Upon
this point, one honorable gentleman
asked whether the laws both for men
and women were not constantly i'm
proving, and whether, therefore, it was
not unfair to attribute the character
of the laws about women to the fact
that men made them. The reply is
very evident. If women alone made
the laws, legislation for both men and
women would undoubtedly be pro-
gressive. Does the honorable gentle
man think, therefore, that women
only should make the laws?-Georgt
William Curtis.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-07-15

COLLECTING Toll AT TELEPHONES
An automatic toll-taking device has
been invented to be attached to tele-
phones at public or pay stations. The
mechanism in the telephone box is SC
arranged that the telephone will not
operate until coin of certain size and
weight dropped into a slit in front
acts upon switch lever, thereby
making electrical connection between
the transmitter and the line wire. The
hanging of the receiving telephone
after use, in the place provided for it
drops the coin into till and releases
the switch lever, thereby breaking the
electrical connection and setting the
trap" for the next user.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-07-15

TUESDAY morning, about a mile east
of Spokane Falls, an extra train run
by Conductor Fannan and Engineer
Evans, running at high rate
of speed, suddenly came upon band
of horses. Two of the horses were
rolled upon the cowcatcher and
pitched off ahead Of the engine on the
track, while body of another of the
animals was crushed under the wheels
and cut into mince-meat at the first.
The engine also ran upon the bodies
of the first two, and such was the OBJ.
struction that the wheels left the rails
and the whole train, still going at a
lively rate, plunged into the bank OF
solid rock on the south side. The en-
gineer was found jammed down be-
tween the wheels of the engine and
the tender. The conductor and brake.
men were in the caboose car aud es'
capped injury. The engineer received
a very severe cut and bruise in the
right thigh, and several bruises about
head and face and others along the
back, but not fatal ones.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-07-15

ST. Louis Globe Democrat: The re
ceipts from customs for the fiscal
year just closed exceed those OF any
previous year in the history of the
Government except 1882, and in that
year there were only about $2,OOO,OOC
larger. This aggregate is not explicitly
shown as yet, but it will appear in
the final readjustmants of the returns
The Internal Revenue receipts are
also greater than those of either OF
the two preceding years. These
figures prove undoubtedly that more
money it being collected than ii
needed, which fact is contrary to oul
political philosophy; but they also
demonstrate, as Fourth of July orators
this year should not have failed te
have set forth, that ours is the only
nation on the earth to-day which il
embarrassed by reason of a supply o
funds that surpasses all its Legitimate
wants and obligations,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-07-15

The Mining and Scientific Press
referring to the value OF the Pacific
Coast lumber belt says: The exact
area of this enormous belt of woodland
may not be easily ascertained; it can
not, however, be placed at less than
twenty-five miles in width, which
would give it an area of 81, 800 square
miles. 1t is very hard to fix an aver
age production of an acre, but it can
not be given at less than $4,000 feet
per acre. This for the whole area
would make 100000, 900 feet. Reck-
oning this at $5 per 1000 feet in the
log, it would be worth $lO,OOO,-
600, 900; when sawed at the mill
it would be worth $4,000, 600, 900
At port OF destination such as San
Francisco it would sell for $3O,OOO,-
100000. Manufactured, it would be
worth fully 10000 900 900, or nearly
double the total value of all the prop
erty in the United States at the pres
ent day. The greatest part of all this
belongs to the United States, being
located either in California, Oregon
Washington, or Alaska, though there
is a great deal of it to British Column
bia.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-07-15
A Oeathbed Confession Made Too Late


CHICAGO, July "a special dis
patch from Chattanooga says: The
town of Scottsboro, Ala, is all torn up
over a big sensation which has just
come to light. In August, 1884,
George Smith, George Hughes and
Asbury Hughes We're hanged for the
burning OF house belonging to one
Porter on Sand mountain. The men
were all convicted on the testimony of
the Porter woman, who swore positive
" against them. Adam Freeman Was
sent to the penitentiary short time
ago for forging an order for pair of
shoes. He took sick few days ago
and yesterday just before he died he
called the penitentiary officials around
him and confessed that he had burned
the Porter house, and the men who
had been executed knew nothing about
it. The confession created a profound
sensation.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-07-15
More Light.
EVIDENCE OF CRoOKEDNEss IN THE Gus
TOMS SERVICE,


TOMS SERVICE.
SAN FRANCISCO, July S.-The Chron
icle this morning prints a series O
letters and affidavits found among The
effects of the late Abner L. Blake, for
merly in the United States Customs
Service at Port Townsend, and who
died under mysterious circumstances
at Chicago last May while on his way
70 Washington. The article shows
that Blake, who had been removed
from the customs service, held to the
opinion that H. F. Beecher, son OF the
late Henry Ward Beecher, who holds
a responsible position in the customs
service at Port Townsend, had de-
frauded the Government, and in one
instance had withheld from an in
former the amount due him, growing
out of a large opium seizure. The
seizure in question consisted OF four
teen barrels of opium, which were
found hidden in an Alaska bay, hay
ing been placed there by the steamer
Idaho.
The seized opium was sold by the
Government for $32 900, of which the
informer, G. NJ. Rouse, was to have
received about $4,000. In the pa
pers of Blake it is shown that China
man, All Cooy, OF Victoria, was sub
stituted as Dunning's informer and
given a small sum of money. These
and other serious charges of other ir-
regularities were made by Blake to
the officials at Washington, but as no
attention was paid to them, Blake
started East with them, but was in
duced to stop at Chicago, and there
died at the hospital. In letter writ
ten by Rouse from Chicago, he ex-
presses the belief that Blake there
met Bill" Minty, formerly employed
on the steamer Euangel by Beecher,
and that he met foul play, resulting in
his death, to prevent exposures. All
Blake's papers fell into the Chronicles
hands, and it will print them in ex-
tense. Among them are a number OF
affidavits charging that Beecher paid
out various amounts for expenses and
for government supplies, in the last
instance collecting more from the
government than paid out.
HOW BLAKE WAS FOUND IN CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, July S.-A. L. Blake,
whose supposed murder under sensa-
tional circumstances was mentioned
in to-night's Associated Press dis
patches from San Francisco, was
found on the morning of May Goth at
the Union Depot in this city, in an
unconscious condition. He was re-
moved to the police station and after
wards to the insane department Of the
county Jail. The physician who ex-
amined him said he was suffering
from conclusion of the brain or mar
cotic poison. The man never fully
rallied, and finally died at the county
hospital, from where he was removed
when the County Physician had ex-
amined him. Papers on his person
indicated that he was on his way East
to prefer charges against Collector
Beecher. But little or no attention
was paid to the matter at the time.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-07-15

A CORRESPONDENT at Laconner, un-
der the date of July 4th, telegraphs
us follows: Frank Bennay, respec-
table citizen of this county, was dan
gerously stabbed this morning while
trying to save a neighbor from the
knife of a tough named Sam Thomp-
son. Mr.. Bennay is pronounced in a
very critical condition. S. Thomp-
son is held in the sum of $4,000 to
answer to the charge of attempt to
murder, and in default of bonds has
been placed in the King county Jail.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-07-15
THEY MAY"


of fire cracker. The small boys
have already got ahead of the Com
missioners by hiding in barns and
stables to set off fire works, the result
being two large fires. Dem.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-07-15
wants and obligations.

The editors present at the Tacoma
celebration organized a Territorial press
association with Frank Dallam, of the
Spokane Reriew, for President; Leigh
Hunt, of the Mtelligencer, Vice Presi
dent; S. F. Sterling, OF the Ellensburg
New Era, Secretary, and r. F. Rade
baugh, of the Ledger, Treasurer. The
place of next meeting of the Associa
ton is North Yakima, and the time
designated was the first week in Octo
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-07-15

ONE who is very successful at rose
culture, when asked for her secret, re-
piled that it lay mainly in manure
pruning knives, attention and sun
shine.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-07-15

THE salmon pack is up to this date
much below that of former years. I'm
less the July run is exceedingly heavy
the deficit will not be made up this
| season
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-07-15

AMONG every 1000 bachelors there
are 80 criminals, while among the mar
ried men the ratio is only Is in l,OOO.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-07-15

THERE was six freight cars loaded
with postal cards arrived in Chicago
the other day. The number of postal
cards in the lot was $4,000, 900 and the
weight was Is tons.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-07-15

Hon. r. C. Kerr is reelected prin-
cipal of the Walla Walla schools, with
an increased salary.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-07-15

Ben Holiday, a prominent capital
ist and railroad man of former years,
died at st. Vincent's Hospital, Port
land, Sunday night, after three weeks
prostration. He was 6S years of age.
Ben Holiday was one of the most
prominent characters in the history OF
Oregon. He put a great many men
on their feet and also ruined as many
His death will put an end to the heated
litigation with his brother Joe.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-07-15

THE New York hop crop is failure
Only about third of a crop will be
harvested.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-07-15
A New Industry for Women.

| tEliza Putnam Heaton. in Brooklyn Times
A new industry for women is begin
ming to evolve itself in New York,
which may yet do much toward solving
the vexed servant-girl question. Some
three months ago a woman of good
old New York family, educated and
capable, left a widow without money,
and having served no apprenticeship
to any of the industries by which wo-
men earn bread and hpttor, began to
think of putting hsrspridsSn herepock-
ct and turning her notable housekeep-
ing talents to account by looking for
service in family as cook.
Considering the matter further, it
occurred to her that she could do bet
ter. Securing with some little effort,
the project being novel one, a client
age of half dozen families in her i'm
mediate neighborhood that were groan-
ing under dyspepsia, induced by
" light housekeeping" she began to
send out, three times a day, delicately
cooked and daintily served meals. Her
venture was SO Immediately successful
that she looked up a New England
housekeeper and a couple of stout
armed Swedish girls to help her, and
her business sprang, almost in single
night, to the utmost dimensions that
she could handle.
She has twenty-one families on her
list at present, l think, to whom she
supplies just that wholesome round of
breakfasts, lunches and dinners that
the average housemother would offer
to husband and little folks. Fruit in
season, in the morning, oatmeal or
wheaton grits, fish, steak, or chops;
side dish, such as stewed kidneys, sau-
sage, liver and bacon, eggs; coffee, tea
or chocolate, bread and butter, milk
and sugar. Soup, fish, roast, three
vegetables, dessert and coffee make up
the dinner, all of which is sent out at
a cost of 81 week to single person,
IS each for members of families,
though as what is supplied for two is
sufficient for three, the cost per house
hold is not reckOned in multiples of
that sum. In a way the experiment ia
one in cooperative housekeeping; for,
practically, the cost of everyday living
is divided among a number of families,
purchases for all being made together,
the labor for all systematized and sim
plifed, and the waste of all minimized,
the result being that each family saves
nearly the full amount of its cooks
wages, and is freed from the tyranny
OF Castle Garden besides.
Two other women, emulous of the
first, talk of starting similar enter
prises. The scheme is in its infancy,
but whenever a sufficient number of
families within radius of a block or
two as near the great flat houses, can
be interested in it, it has promise of an
opening for an industry for women
and of relief from divers perplexities
for the families they serve.
TUESDAY morning. about mile east
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-07-15

THE idea of woman suffrage has
crossed the state line from Kansas, and
invaded Missouri. At the Ministers
Alliance, held in Kansas City very rec
Gently, the question was up for consid
Grafton, and majority Of the ministers
present favored the extension OF suf
frage to women.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-07-15

little turning lathe. Then he bought a
cheap set of carver's tools. You see
he was always looking out to save
labor and to combine originality in
the articles he turned out. Time ran
along, and almost before he knew it,
he was getting more orders than he
could, alone, fill, so he hired man to
dress and prepare his materials, lay
out the patterns, and put the articles
together. Still his orders increased,
and he hired another and etill another
man. To-day he has thirty men in
his employment, and he does no phys
ical labor himself. Making money !?
Yes, right along, but it was q very
little thing that gave him his start.
Now, the point l wish to make is
this: Capital, in large amounts, is not
necessary in the founding of industrial
enterprises. A good deal of pluck
and energy, and unconquerable per-
severance, are better than money, be-
cause, having these, money becomes
the result, not the means, of success.
Money is valuable, not as the means
by which an end may be accom-
plished, but rather because it is the
result of an accomplished end. 1t
has power, immense power, but with
out energy, behind it, it is powerless.
Perseverance and energy can make
money, but money cannot make per-
severance and energy. What would
like to see in our Sunny South is
more small industrial establishments.
l would rather see dozen shops
employing three men each, than one
shop employing three dozen men.
There is more money in the three
dozen, because there is greater possi-
bility for their expansion and growth.
Don't wait for the establishment Of
big enterprises with heavy capital,
but start little ones in a modest way,
and then let them grow, as the ma
jority ofthem surely will.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-07-15

GEORGE Wilson, the Penitentiary
trusty who endeavored to made his es-
cape on the Fourth, is said by the pris-
on officials to be a person OF good capa-
city. He is said to be fine painter
and blacksmith, and exceedingly clev-
er in all branches of applied mechan-
les. During his imprisonment he has
studied up device for opening heavy
gates, which he intends to get patented
as soon as liberated. When the pris.
oners were brought here the heavy
front gates OF the stockade, weighing
in the neighborhood of a ton each,
were source of considerable annoy
ance, and when opened two men were
necessary for the operation. Wilson
expressing ability to render them
more easily opened, was set at work
and the gate is now readily opened by
one person. He had but three months
and one day to serve, which his at
tempt to escape increased to Decem.
Der 6, 1SS7.-Union.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-07-15
Woman Suffrage Bazaar.

7sthe Friends of Wonaan Suffrage:
The success of the Massachusetts
Woman Suffrage Bazaar of 1866 war
rants another for 1887. This year the
New England Woman Suffrage Asso-
cation invites the friends Of any and
all the States and Territories to CO.
operate with them in Bazaar for ma
tional purposes. The Western States
especially are calling upon the treas
ury of the American Woman Suffrage
Association for money to help them.
By the Bazaar of 1856, in three
months time, We put $6,37S.7S into
the State treasury. The West can
furnish legislation if the East will fur
nish part OF the money needed. We
shall try to do it, for their success is
ours. We want more Kansas victo-
ries.
The Bazaar will be held in Music
Hall and Bumstead Hall, Boston, De-
cember 1919, 1887. The basis of di-
vision is as follows: Each State will
receive for its own State treasury fifty
per cent. of the net receipts from its
own donations; the other fifty per
cent. will be put into the American
treasury, to be used, at their discre-
ton, in carrying municipal woman
suffrage bills and constitutional
amendments in any of the States or
Territories.
Please assure us of your co-opera-
ton by letter to our headquarters, 5
Park Street. On the first of Septem-
Der we shall move into beautiful rooms
at 3 Park Street. We invite and ex-
pect all friends of this movement in
the country to make these rooms their
headquarters whenever they are in
Boston. Come and see us.
Lucy STONE,
Chairman Executive Com. ~ Z. ".
S. Il. 5 Park ST., Boston, july /, 1887.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-01-01

1t is stated that 1000 miles of rail-
road have been built in the United
STATES during the present year, or more
than twice as many ms were built in
1885. The increase consists almost
altogether in extensions by old corpo-
rations that have the money to pay for
them, a condition of things that pre-
vailed to q far less extent during the
last era of railroad building. The
danger of overriding the business is moi
wholly lacking, however.